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4th International Barcode of Life Conference
Adelaide, South Australia Venue: University of Adelaide. The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) has announced that the Fourth International Barcode of Life Conference will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, in November, 2011. The event will be hosted by the University of Adelaide. Information from Dr. Andrew Lowe, Conference Chair, will be made [...]
Official launch of iBOL activates world’s largest biodiversity genomics initiative
Toronto – The largest biodiversity genomics initiative ever undertaken – an international effort to build a digital identification system for all life on Earth – will be officially activated this week. The International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL) will be launched by the Minister of Research and Innovation, Glen Murray, during an event at Toronto’s [...]
Barcode Bulletin Vol. 1, No. 2 – June 2010
CONTENTS: Big funding boost | iBOL data release | BOLD developer honoured | iBOL appoints Executive Director | New scientific hub | Barcode funding for developing countries | PolarBOL report | Pakistan insect project | Major progress in Argentina | Kenya gets boost | Bat diet riddle solved | DNA found in mescal | Moorea [...]
David Anderson
Director, Guelph Institute for the Environment, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Rajemison Balsama
Madagascar alternate Director, Madagascar Biodiversity Center, Antanarivo, Madagascar Email: balsama38@hotmail.com
Papua New Guinea
National Node SSC Representative: Amanda Mararuai SSC Alternate: Scott Miller
Peru
National Node SSC Representative: Thomas Valqui SSC Alternate: Gisella Orjeda
iBOL releases 156K barcode records to BOLD, GenBank
The first large blocks of iBOL data have been released to NCBI GenBank and are publicly accessible on the Internet from the Barcode of Life Data (BOLD) Systems web site. The release was made in two stages: 1) 102,772 sequences for 101,214 specimens analyzed at the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding during the first two [...]
Big funding boost for iBOL
New grants raise total investment to $80m The International Barcode of Life Secretariat has announced major new funding for the world’s largest biodiversity genomics project. iBOL Scientific Director Paul Hebert said that four Canadian agencies have made new commitments to iBOL totaling $35 million, raising total investments by these funders to $80 million (all figures [...]